Non-refillable bottle.



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NON-REPILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN'. 30. 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1906.

Application led January 30, 1905. Serial No. 243,195.

T @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I. FREDERICK M. OsGooD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Manchester, in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specication, like numerals on the drawings representing like parts.

Many so called non reiillable bottles have been devised in which a system of valves is used in theneck of the bottle to prevent t-he refilling thereof. All such bottles, so far as I am aware, are not absolutely non-reillable. Some of them are so constructed that if the bottle is tipped on its side or horizontally the valves become dislodged from their valveseats, and by putting the bottle in a body of liquid in this position said bottle can be filled. In some other forms of so-called non-refillable bottles it is possible to lill the bottle by Y liquid into it.

exhausting the air therefrom and then placing the bottle bottom side up, with the air exhausted, in a body of liquid, for in this position the valves are dislodged from their seats and the vacuum within the bottle draws the In making my present invention I have aimed to provide a non-rellable bottle which is proof against filling in either of these two ways. To prevent the bottle from being refilled when it is turned on its side, I have constructed the main valve in such a way that it will not be dislodged from its seat until the bottle is turned into very nearly a vertical position, and to prevent the bottle being filled by exhausting the air therefrom I have made said valve a buoyant valve, with the result that as soon as the liquid starts to enter the neck of the bottle the former is buoyed up by it, and thus closed against its seat.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown one embodiment of my invention.

Figure 1 is avertical central section through a' bottle equipped with my non-reiillable device. Fig. 2 is asection on the line m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section similar to Fig. 1, showing the Abottle in a partially-inverted position. Fig. 4 shows the bottle inverted and illustrates the position of the valves if an attempt is made to ll the bottle by exhausting the air therefrom. Fig. 5 is a section through the non-refillable device on the line y y, Fig. 1; and Fig. 6 shows an under side view of the partition 13.

In the best form of my invention now known to me the valve mechanism of the non-refillable device is contained within ashell or casing which is itself inserted in the neck of the bottle, and in the drawings, 3 designates the neck of any ordinary bottle, and 4 the shell or casing containing the elements which prevent the refilling of the bottle.

The shell or casing 4 may be constructed to tightly fit the neck of the bottle, 0r a lining of Vpacking material--such, for instance, as cork or any other suitable material-may be placed between the bottle-neck and the shell 4. It is the latter construction illustrated in the drawings, and 5 designates a sleeve of packing material which tightly fits the neck of the bottle into which said shell is inserted, said shell being herein shown as provided with locking-flanges 6 to prevent it from being pulled out from the packing material 5.

I have shown the bottle-neck as provided with a contracted portion 7, which forms a seat for the shell 4, and also as provided with one shoulder 8, on which a split ring 9 or other equivalent element may be placed for holding the packing and shell in place.

The shell 4 is provided at its lower end with an outlet-opening 10, and closing said opening is a valve 11, which is herein shown as inverted cup-shaped, the edge 120 of said valve being ground to make a tight joint with the bottom of the shell 4. Said valve is a buoyant valve, by which I mean it is so constructed that it will be buoyed up by the liquid in the bottle. Various ways of making the valve buoyant may be adopted-such, for instance, as providing it with an air-chamber or with a suficient quantity of very light material, such as cork, to make it oat. The latter construction is that herein illustrated, and 12 designates the cork body of the valve. Situated above the valve and extending across the interior of the shell 4 is a partition 13, which is herein shown as cone-shaped, and interposed between the partition and valve is a ball or weight 14, the function of which will be hereinafter described. Said partition 13 is provided with a plurality of ports or passages 15, as seen best in Fig. 6, whichV form a communication between the valve-chamber 16 and a chamber 17. Extending across the shell above the chamber is another partition 18, having two diametrically-opposed openings 19 therein, and rising from lsaid partition 18 is a tubular stem or member 20, provided with ports 21 in its side, which are arranged at an IOO IIO

angle of ninety degrees to the ports 19. The top end 22 of' the shell 4, which covers and closes the annular chamber 23 above the partit-ion 18, is provided with au opening communicating with the interior of the tubular member or stem 20. Said opening is normally closed by a valve 24, the stem of which is provided with lateral projections 25, extending through the ports 21.

While being emptied from the bottle the liquid passes through the outlet-port 10 into chamber 16, thence through the perforations 15 in the partition 13 into chamber 17, thence through the ports 19 into the chamber 23 and from said chamber through ports 21 into the interior of the tubular member 20, and thence out through the bottle-neck. By this arrangement of ports and passages it is impossible for any one to insert a wire or similar implement through the open end of the bottle into the casing 4 far enough to interfere with the operation of the valve 11.

The valve 11 is held on its seat by ball 14, as it will be obvious that when the bottle is standing'upright the weight of the ballon the top of the valye will hold it seated. When the bottle is turned onto its side, said ball rolls down against the inclined portion 13, and the weight of the ball is suicient so that by crowding into the V-shaped space between the inclined portion 13 and the valve 11 it holds the valve on its seat. The Valve will thus be held on its seat by the gravity-actuated ball 14 until the bottle has been tipped beyond the position shown in Fig. 3-in fact, until the bottle has been tipped into such a position that the portion of the' partition 13 onr which the ball rests stands substantially horizontal or inclines downwardly toward the apex of the partition. When the bottle is in this position, which is almost a vertical position, the ball will roll into the apex of the partition and allow the valve 11 to be unseated and the liquid in the bottle to be emptied out. The'size of the annular portion 120 of the valve is such that the port 10 cannot be uncovered by any sidewise or lateral movement of the valve. By thus providing means for preventing the valve from being dislodged from its seat until the bottle is placed in approximately an inverted position it is impossible to reiill the bottle by merely placing it horizontally and immersing it in a body of liquid in such position.

Fig. 4 illustrates the operation of the valve in case it is attempted to lill the bottle by exhausting the air therefrom and then immersing it in theliquid. If this is done, the vacuum within the bottle will draw the liquid upinto the various chambers 23, 17, and 16, and as soon as the liquid enters the chamber 16 the valve 11 will be buoyed up by it and closed against the bottom of the shell 4, thereby preventing the-liquid from being drawn into the bottle. My improved device therefore absolutely prevents the filling of the bottle in any of the ways now known to me and when inserted in a bottle makes it absolutely non-reillable.

I am aware that various changes in the construction of the device may be made without departing from the principle of my invention, and therefore I do not wish to be limited to the exact arrangement and shape of the parts illustrated herein.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a non-refillable bottle, a shell adapted to be inserted Within the bottle-neck, said shell having exterior locking-flanges, a sleeve of packing material inserted between the shell and the bottle-neck, a transverse partition extending across the shell and provided with a port, a conical-shaped perforated partition beneath said transverse partition, a double coneshaped buoyant valve beneath the inclined partition and controlling an inlet-port into the shell, a ball interposed between said valve and partition, a tubular member rising from the transverse partition and provided with lateral ports, and a valve controlling the outlet end of said tubular member.

2. A non-rellable bottle presentinganeck provided with two shoulders, a sleeve fitted within the bottle-neck and retained between said shoulders, said sleeve having a transverse partition provided with one or more ports, a vertical tubular member rising from the transverse partition and provided with lateral ports, a non-detachable valve controlling the outlet end of the tubular member, a cone-shaped perforated partition beneath the transverse partition, a buoyant valve beneath the cone-shaped partition, said valve controlling the inlet-port to the sleeve and a ball-weight interposedbetween the valve and cone-shaped partition.

In testimony wliereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK M. OSGOOD.

Vitnesses:

GEORGE A. VERMiLLE, HELEN T. MEEHAN. 

